Tackling the challenges of living with multiple health conditions

We know that many people with arthritis also live with other conditions– this is known as‘multimorbidity’. Living with many conditions can have a huge impact on individuals: there can be more medication and medical appointments to manage, or one condition could impact on a person’s ability to manage another. It also has a knock-on effect on health and care, for example a ten-minute consultation with a GP may not be enough time to discuss the impact of many conditions. We believe it is one of the largest and most complex challenges facing our health and care systems today.Our policy and campaigns teams heard from people across the country about their personal experience of managing multiple conditions, and featured some of these stories in our‘Musculoskeletal conditions and multimorbidity’ report produced in Summer 2017.Arthritis Research UK is passionate about ensuring that people with multiple long-term conditions can live as well as possible, for as long as possible. To make this a reality, health and care services, and the voluntary sector, need to come together to delay and prevent the development of many conditions, alongside making sure that those already living with multiple long-term conditions have joined up services they can call on for support.To tackle this problem head on, our Chief Executive Liam O’Toole is leading the Richmond Group multimorbidity taskforce. The Richmond Group of charities work together to influence hea...
Source: Arthritis Research UK - Category: Rheumatology Source Type: news